FIVE MINUTE GUIDE: Tasmania State Budget 2021/22

Everything you need to know about Tasmania’s state budget for 2021 and how it will affect you. FULL GUIDE >>

Everything you need to know about Tasmania’s state budget for 2021 and how it will affect you.

Everything you need to know about Tasmania’s state budget for 2021 and how it will affect you.

AT A GLANCE:

By the numbers:

• Deficit: $689m, up 67%
• Revenue: $7.25bn, up 5.9%
• Expenditure: $7.94bn, up 9.4%
• Unemployment: 5.5%
• Growth: 4%
• Population Growth: 0.5%

Highlights of this year’s budget:

• $198m to the health system to meet demand in major hospitals and open more beds.
• $120m to bring down the elective surgery waiting list.
• $52m to strengthen palliative and community health care.
• $50m for phases one and two of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Review.
• $41m to fund additional paramedics including two new crews in Hobart and Launceston.
• $37.6m for an extra 100 TasTAFE teachers.
• $30.5m for the cost of extending Tasmania’s hotel quarantine program.
• $26m to support mental health services.

BUDGET BEING HANDED DOWN IN PARLIAMENT >>

Spending by sector:

• Health: $2.58bn, 32.5%
• Education: $1.92bn, 24.2%
• Public Order and Safety: $724m, 9.1%
• Social Protection: $562m, 7.1%
• Transport: $375m, 4.7%
• Housing and Community Amentities: $280m, 3.5%
• Normal interest or superannuation: $129m, 1.6%
• Other: $1.36bn, 17.2%

Hobart. Picture: Richard Jupe

Infrastruction spend:

• Roads and bridges: $370.6 million (44 per cent)
• Hospitals and health: $110.7 million (13 per cent)
• Human services and housing: $91.4 million (11 per cent)
• Law and order: $84.1 million (10 per cent)
• Schools, education and skills: $69.3 million (8 per cent)
• Tourism, recreation and culture: $56.1 million (6.8 per cent)
• Information and communication technology: $36.7 million (4.4 per cent)

Highlights by the regions:

South:

• $149m for the Greater Hobart Traffic Solution.
• $110m for the Royal Hobart Hospital stage 2 redevelopment
• $60m for the Algona Road Interchange and to duplicate the Kingston bypass.
• $15.1m for the redevelopment of Cambridge High School.
• $50m for a new years 7-12 Brighton High School
• $20m towards the revitalisation of Cosgrove High School.
• $27.8m for state road upgrades.
• $55.5m to finish the $85m Southern Remand Centre.
• $16.8m for Ogilvie and New Town Highs
• $10.3m for the new Glenorchy Ambulance Station
• $6m to upgrade Blundstone Arena.

North:

• $66.5m towards the redevelopment of the Launceston General Hospital.
• $66.4m for the Tamar Valley Traffic Vision.
• $57.2m towards the $270m Northern Regional Prison.
• $27m for state road upgrades.
• $23.8m for a new primary school in Legana.
• $11m to redevelop Exeter High School
• $9m for ambulance vehicles and equipment.
• $8m for Tamar River dredging and estuary governance.
• $1.2m towards developing Ben Lomond as a year-round destination.

North-west:

• $40m for the new Burnie court complex.
• $36.4m for state road upgrades.
• $20m towards the $40m North-West Regional Hospital mental health precinct.
• $15.5m for a new purpose-built north-west support school.
• $10m for Arthur-Pieman Conservation Area track upgrades.
• $12.2m to complete the 420m redevelopment of Penguin District School.
• $4.6m as part of the final stage of the redevelopment of Devonport High School.
• $2.6m for wards upgrades and beds at the NWRH.
• $8m for operation and staffing of the NWRH linear accelerator.
• $10.3m for the new Burnie ambulance station.
• $1m for Hobart to King Island flight subsidies.